In this issue: Child Survivor Website Update, CSH Compensation Claim Update, Pendant found at Sobibor Linked to Teenage Owner, My Story… My Life… Bernadette Polak, Adolfo Kaminsky by Rachelle Goldstein, Co-Director, Hidden Child Foundation/ADL, New York and My Story… My Life… Judy Kolt.

Image: Judy Kolt’s father Stefan, with his daughters and Father Ussas, on the last day they were together in June 1943.

In this issue: Upcoming CSH Events, “One More Stage of My Life” by Paulette Szabason – Goldberg, My Life, My Story… “Another Pebble in Time”, Shana Tova to all child survivors, Poem – “White Magnolia” by Eva Marks, Marietta Elliott-Kleerkoper’s poems and photography, Poem – “A Perfect Distortion” by Marietta Elliott-Kleerkoper, and ABC Compass program – Silent Witnesses.

Image: CSH -A Point in Time – Anthology Contributors.

In this issue: Claims Conference update, Effects of the Holocaust on Jewish Child Survivors: A Review of Their Traumas and After-effects by Dr Paul Valent, “My Lost and Found Homelands” by Halina Robinson and World Kindertransport Day: 2 December 2014 – Kindertransport: ‘To my dying day, I will be grateful to this country’ by Lucy Ward.

Image: German-Jewish refugees arrive at Southampton in 1939.

In this issue: ‘The Final Breath’ and a poem ‘We The Survivors’ by Nina Stone, ‘Aftermath’ by Anne Korman, ‘My Fascination with Dolls’ by Eva Marks, Danial Kogan painting ‘Escape Hatch, ‘My Story… My Life’ by Sivia Migdalek, and a tribute to Alice Hersz-Sommer.

Image: Silvia Andacht Migdalek.

In this issue: Update on Melbourne Child Survivors Website, CSH Forum – “Children Remembering Hurt”, Claims Conference Update, CSH End of Year Party, My Story… My Life… Days of Darkness by Helen Hamersfeld, Now That’s Survival: Holocaust Survivor Oldest Man at 112 and Looking for Bubby Loewy or Bubby Levy or Ted Levy.

Image: CSH End of Year Party.

In this issue: the launch of the ‘Time Capsule’ event, ‘A Glimmer of Light in the Darkness’ by Anna Bayer, ‘The Kindertransport Statue’ by Frank Baumann, ‘My Little Suitcase – 51cms x 76cms’ by Paulette Goldberg, ‘My Life… My Story’ and two poems ‘Cellar’ & ‘Waterlily’ by Marietta Elliott Kleerkoper and news from the National Association of Jewish Child Holocaust Survivors USA (NAHOS).

Image: Paulette Goldberg in front of Child Survivors Tableau.

In this issue: Claims Conference Update, CSH participation at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum, “A child survivor’s response to asylum seeker children” by Roza Riaikkenen (Lamdanskyte), “Finally Understanding: How Being the Son of a Holocaust Survivor Shaped My Life” by Dr. Joel Verstaendig, Documentary: ‘Pockets of Hope’ and Bergen-Belsen 70th Anniversary.

Image: Roza Riaikkenen with her rescuers, Maria and Kazimeras Baksha, in 1944, after Kaunas was liberated.

In this issue: the launch of the ‘Time Capsule’ event, ‘A Glimmer of Light in the Darkness’ by Anna Bayer, ‘The Kindertransport Statue’ by Frank Baumann, ‘My Little Suitcase – 51cms x 76cms’ by Paulette Goldberg, ‘My Life… My Story’ and two poems ‘Cellar’ & ‘Waterlily’ by Marietta Elliott Kleerkoper and news from the National Association of Jewish Child Holocaust Survivors USA (NAHOS).

Image: Paulette Goldberg and siblings.

In this issue: Claims Conference Update, Albert Roller – Lifetime Achievement Award, Pier Festival 2015 and Artwork “Auschwitz Rainbows” by Danial Kogan.

Image: Auschwitz Rainbows

Your Centre News covers a rich array of subjects, from the Haredi narrative of the Holocaust to the treatment of the sick and disabled under National Socialism, and reflections on the recent Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.

We feature the early testimonies of Holocaust survivors recorded in Yiddish and translated by Freda Hodge in Tragedy and Triumph: Early Testimonies of Jewish Survivors of World War II. In this edition, we also bring you Andy Factor’s story of escaping from Europe and building a new life in Australia centred on music, art and family. Enjoy reading all the thought-provoking articles in this first edition of Centre News for 2019.

In this edition, Mark Weitzman, from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Dr Brendan Nelson, Director of the Australian War Memorial, draw lessons from the Holocaust in discussing current events.

In addition, we also bring you the stories of survivors Josef Hellen and Moshe Fiszman, and Bernadette Gore and Paul Valent, who feature in the new anthology of Melbourne child survivors, A Point in Time. Maarten Joustra recounts the moving story of how he was saved through the help and courage of ‘ordinary people’ in Holland, and Ellina Zipman discusses the Melbourne Holocaust survivor opsimaths – people who learn later in life – who embarked on study after being denied an education because of the Holocaust.

Featured in this edition of Centre News are the moving stories of Holocaust survivors and MHM museum guides Lusia Haberfeld and Joe Scwarzberg.

Featured in this edition of Centre News are the moving stories of Holocaust survivors and MHM museum guides Lusia Haberfeld and Joe
Scwarzberg. Jayne Josem reports on the journey to Poland she undertook with Szaja Chaskiel and a film crew to make a film that will help future visitors to the MHM to ‘walk’ with a survivor through his memories.

Dr Anna Hirsh mines the extensive MHM collection to bring you stories of Jewish people in Melbourne who selflessly helped refugees and Holocaust survivors to escape Europe and settle in Melbourne; English doctoral student Amy Williams writes about the Kindertransports; and US-based Australian academic Professor Paul Bartrop urges us to remember the Pontian genocide.

The September 2016 edition of Centre News, featuring a moving tribute to Elie Wiesel by Rabbi Ralph Genende.

The September 2016 pre-Rosh Hashanah edition of the Melbourne Holocaust Museum’s bi-annual publication, Centre News, features a moving tribute to Elie Wiesel, who passed away on 2 July this year, by Rabbi Ralph Genende in which he refers to Wiesel as a man burning ‘with a passion and a mission … Out of this fire was born his primary mission: … to bear witness, to give testimony and create a testament for the future.’

Articles in this edition include the testimonies of those who bore witness: the stories of Lola Putt, one of the few Greek Jews to survive Auschwitz; Floris Kalman, a Belgian child survivor of the Holocaust who spent two years in hiding; Shmuel Rosenkranz, who witnessed Kristallnacht in Vienna as a teenager before escaping from Europe; and Gary Gray from Sosnowiec, Poland, and Otto Kohn from Prague, Czechoslovakia, who were prisoners in slave labour and concentration camps. As Centre News editor, Ruth Mushin, notes in her introductory message: ‘Bearing witness and giving testimony has also been the mission of Melbourne’s Holocaust survivors, and this edition is truly a celebration of their stories and the enormous contribution they have made’.

The publication includes some fascinating insights by Melbourne Holocaust Museum Curator Jayne Josem and Archivist Dr Anna Hirsh on their recent trips to Poland, an analysis of Holocaust diarists by Dr Fiona Kaufman, and a reflection on what it means to be part of the third generation of Holocaust survivors by Bram Presser.

We hope you enjoy the articles.

Words are not the only way to tell stories, however, and in this edition we also feature the MHM Memory Reconstruction Project.

Words are not the only way to tell stories, however, and in this edition we also feature the MHM Memory Reconstruction Project, which brought together Holocaust survivors and their families at the Centre to create personal collages to capture survivors’ stories. And, in another example of visual storytelling, Dr Anna Hirsh discusses some of the artworks housed in the Centre’s own wonderful collection of paintings, drawings and sculpture.The April 2016 pre-Pesach edition of the Melbourne Holocaust Museum’s bi-annual publication, Centre News, makes excellent reading. This issue features the text of a presentation by Holocaust survivor and Melbourne Holocaust Museum guide, 94-year old Moshe Fiszman, given in January at the UN Holocaust Memorial Day in which he focuses on the ‘sparks of human kindness, selflessness and compassion’ of one courageous non-Jewish woman who helped him to survive. As well as bringing you his moving testimony, we also feature the account of Saba Feniger’s liberation in May 1945, and Fred Antman’s recollections of life as a refugee in Shanghai.

Dr John Fox has written a thoughtful analysis of Theodore Adorno’s ideas about collective responsibility and their connection to the Holocaust, and Dr Avril Alba discusses the transmission of Holocaust memory to successive generations, and the role of Holocaust museums in doing so.

We hope you enjoy the articles.

Articles in our April 2015 edition of Centre News focus on Jews who survived the Second World War inside the Soviet Union.

Articles in our April 2015 edition of Centre News cover a broad canvas. Two articles – one historical and the other a personal narrative – focus on Jews who survived the Second World War inside the Soviet Union. Both pieces were written by seasoned academics, Dr John Goldlust and Dr Maria Tamarkin, and make fascinating reading.

The saga of the Jews who survived in Shanghai during World War Two, like the story of those who survived in the Soviet Union, has often been by-passed by historians of the Holocaust era, who tend to focus on Poland, the Balkans, Central and Western Europe. The Melbourne Holocaust Museum, however, has a keen interest in the stories of the ‘Shanghailanders’ and, against the background of the exhibition on Shanghai Jewry currently featured at the MHM, this period in Jewish history is highlighted by Horst Eisfelder who spent the war years as a youngster in Shanghai.

Centre News readers will ‘meet’ Tim Chan, an exceptional young man who, diagnosed with autism at the age of three, has written a ‘must read’ article.

And there is much more!

If you have not yet read and enjoyed the September 2015 edition of Centre News, please take the opportunity to do so.